"Being A Cop Showed Me Just How Racist And Violent Police Are. There's Only One Fix."
Redditt Hudson, a former cop, works for the NAACP and chairs the board of the Ethics Project. The views expressed here are his own. As a kid, I got
Liar, Liar Pence On Fire!
Let’s face it: You don’t get to be governor of a deeply red state like Indiana, which went Republican in every presidential election from 1968 to
California Seeks to Head Off Initiative to Execute Gays
Petitioning Craig Holden Disbar lawyer who wants to legalize the murder of LGBT people Petition by Carol Dahmen West Sacramento, California Peop
A Hard Time of It (Poem by Kathryn Nevin)
A Hard Time of It By Kathryn Nevin It’s a gibbous moon. The astronauts are out tonight. Perfecting their craft, fixing frayed patches, hamme
How The CIA Made Google
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet The Google campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Io
Activists Launch Project Digital Privacy Against Local-Level Warrantless Surveillance
On January 23,2014, a coalition of activists nationwide have launched an organization named Project Digital Privacy. The goal of the organization
Media Consensus: Obama Should Have Taken Time Off from His Dogged Attempts to Jail Risen, Snowden, Greenwald, Assange, etc. for Talking About Federal Crimes, and Attended the Free Speech Rally in Paris
Obama is a constitutional lawyer and a seasoned politician -- he knows the importance of symbolism -- yet he did not drop his strict observance of a
Release Government Files On The Malcolm X Assassination
"... Releasing all federal records would presumably shed a light on the government’s role..." AS THE 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassinatio
Family of Lennon Lacy Requests Federal Investigation into Suspicious Death
Together with the North Carolina NAACP, the family of the Bladenboro teenager who was found dead this summer has requested that the U.S. Justice Depar
Chart of Ferguson Eyewitness Grand Jury Testimony
November 26, 2014 This great PBS NewsHour chart shows an analysis of the eyewitness testimony provided to the grand jury that investigated
YOUNG BLACK MEN 21 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY COPS
Deadly Force, in Black and White A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males By Ryan Gabrielson, Ry
Tom Hayden on the CIA's Student Activism Phase
In the 1960s, the agency sought to fight Communism through the students’ rights movement. There’s little reason to think its tactics have changed.
Thailand: Severe Repression Six Months After Military Coup
‘Don’t Ask for Democracy’ Junta Leader Says NOVEMBER 25, 2014 Respect for fundamental freedoms and democracy in Thailand under
Firing Squad Executions Back on the Table in Utah Legislature
A legislative committee wants to bring back the firing squad as one of the primary methods for executing condemned criminals in Utah. The L
Mexico Reels and the U.S. Looks Away (LA Times OpEd)
"... There is a sense that the entire ideological spectrum of the political class is tainted. ..." The violent disappearance of 43 students from the
Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required (New York Times)
Also see: Private Property Seizures: Booz, Allen & Hamilton, the Army’s Accomplice in Southeast Colorado ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa — For almo
A Cult of Rules: The Origins of Legalism in the Surveillance State
"... Political theorist Judith Shklar defined legalism as 'the ethical attitude that holds moral conduct to be a matter of rule following' — nearly
Racism Treaty Committee Calls on Obama Administration to Explain Black Prisoners Still Imprisoned Under COINTELPRO
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued its “Concluding Observations” on Aug. 29 over United States progress to end racis
Taking Liberties: Innocent Activities Could Place You in the Fed's Anti-Terrorism Database
"... Even when the Federal Bureau of Investigation concludes that the person did not have any nexus to terrorism, a SAR can haunt that individual fo
Agent Provocateurs? ‘Revolutionary’ Whites Try to Incite Unarmed Crowd in Ferguson, Mo.
BY RICHARD B. MUHAMMAD August 19, 2014 FERGUSON, Mo. - The National Guard has rolled in, but the pain and passion of people in the streets, in
Images from Ferguson Reveal Uncomfortable Truths (WaPo)
"... There are provocateurs among the mostly peaceful protesters, and the police have adopted a terrifyingly aggressive posture in relation to the c
Slain Teen's Family: Release of Surveillance Stills ‘Character Assassination’
Conflicting reports: "... Jackson said Wilson encountered Brown after responding to a 911 call involving the robbery of a convenience store. Police o
The Pentagon Gave the Ferguson Police Department Military-Grade Weapons
The local community of Ferguson, Missouri, may not look like a war zone, but the Pentagon has helped the police treat it like one. Accordin
The Christian Identity Movement & the Mississippi Burning Murders
Mississippi Burning Killings: Religious Terrorism? JOURNEY TO JUSTICE By Stuart Wexler Samuel Holloway Bowers, the first Imperi